Francis Bacon: Revelations
By: Mark Stevens
4.44
Format: 880 pages, Hardcover
Francis Bacon created an indelible image of mankind in modern times, and played an outsized role in…
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1. The Safety of Objects
By: A.M. Homes
3.79
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Published to overwhelming critical acclaim, this extraordinary collection of short stories establis… read more
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"If you are ever in a praying situation with Him: Be Specific! Include certain clauses. It’s not enough to assume that if a person lives they’ll be okay… Cause God has a wicked sense of humor. And eve…"-A.M. Homes, The Safety of Objects
2. Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)
By: Marcel Proust
3.40
Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Albertine disparueest le dernier volume revu et remanie par Proust avant sa mort. Prevu d'abord sou… read more
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3. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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4. Tirza
By: Arnon Grunberg
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
De vrijheid mag lonken, maar liefst niet de hele dag; wanneer de vrijheid uitsluitend tijdens de zo… read more
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- art
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- biography
- british literature
- nonfiction
6. The Obscene Bird of Night
By: José Donoso , Hardie St. Martin , Leonard Mades
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the g… read more
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7. The Lives of the Artists
By: Peter Bondanella , Giorgio Vasari , None
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's coll… read more
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8. Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
By: Gregory White Smith , Steven Naifeh
3.99
Format: None pages,
Based on family letters and documents, lengthy interviews with his widow, Lee Krasner, as well as h… read more
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9. Modern Nature
By: Derek Jarman
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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- art
- nonfiction
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"But now I have re-discovered boredom, where I can fight ‘what next’ with nothing."-Derek Jarman, Modern Nature
10. Strangeland
By: Tracey Emin
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would … read more
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11. The House of the Dead
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Ergin Altay
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of h… read more
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12. The Noise of Time
By: Julian Barnes
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes's first … read more
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13. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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14. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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- biography
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
15. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
16. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
17. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
18. Mañana y tarde
By: Jon Fosse
3.88
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more
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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
19. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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20. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
21. Changer : méthode
By: Édouard Louis
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
« Une question s’est imposée au centre de ma vie, elle a concentré toutes mes réflexions, occupé to… read more
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22. De kapperszoon
By: Gerbrand Bakker
3.54
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Multi–award winning Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker’s phenomenal new novel about grief and the unavoid… read more
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23. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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24. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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25. Ducks, Newburyport
By: Lucy Ellmann
3.97
Format: 1022 pages, Paperback
LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality … read more
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"Italians answer the phone, “Pronto,"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"I think that Inuit duck is at the Peabody, Bringing Up Baby, “Ducky! Ducky!"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"...the fact that there’s a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life..."-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
26. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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- art history
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"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
27. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
By: Sam Wasson
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more
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28. Churchill: Walking with Destiny
By: Andrew Roberts
4.36
Format: 1105 pages, Hardcover
A landmark reconsideration of the iconoclastic war leader, based on extensive new material, from pr… read more
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- biography
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29. The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922 - 1968
By: William Feaver
3.75
Format: 704 pages, Kindle Edition
Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and c… read more
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30. Francis Bacon: Revelations
By: Mark Stevens
4.44
Format: 880 pages, Hardcover
Francis Bacon created an indelible image of mankind in modern times, and played an outsized role in… read more
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31. Ferskenen
By: Johan Harstad
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Femten mikrokrimromaner og nitti sider sluttnoter. Et overskuddsprosjekt fra Johan Harstad Frode… read more
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